Clinical update on testicular microlithiasis

Current Opinion in Urology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 615-618

  Meißner, Andreas ^a   Mamoulakis, Charalampos ^a   De La Rosette, Jean J M C H ^a   Pes, M Pilar Laguna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Microlithiasis; Testis; Testis cancer; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CRYPTORCHISM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GERM CELL TUMOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTRATUBULAR GERM CELL NEOPLASIA; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SELF EXAMINATION; STONE FORMATION; TESTICULAR MICROLITHIASIS; TESTIS ATROPHY; TESTIS BIOPSY; TESTIS CANCER; TESTIS DISEASE;

HUMANS; LITHIASIS; MALE; TESTICULAR DISEASES; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350052701     PISSN: 09630643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOU.0b013e3283314a1d     Document Type: Review

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